LOVE

Love's Grammar

Walking the dog.
Sweeping the floor.
Paying the bills.
Walking the dog.

No more! Henceforth
we'll walk as friends--
ambling through the woods
in silent conversation,
now he taking the lead, now I;

or racing through the fields--
his long ears rising up
like startled birds; mine
--not so much.

And when he sleeps--
curled nose to butt--
I sweep the floor,
I pay the bills.
I love.